Contacting the webmasters

This site is maintained by a team of volunteers who are constantly
trying to improve it. We are all GIMP users and some of us are also
GIMP developers. If you have a question or a comment about GIMP, we
will do our best to help you. However, we get a lot of mail
and we may not be able to answer all queries. The best way to get
support is to post your questions and comments to one of the mailing lists or IRC
channels, or to the GIMP newsgroup (comp.graphics.apps.gimp).

If you have a problem with GIMP and you think that you have
found a bug or if you would like to suggest a new feature, you can
also take a look at our bugs page. Your
problem may have been reported or solved already, so please
search and browse for existing
reports first.

If you have the feeling that your report will require (longer)
discussion - this is true for most feature requests - then you should
bring this topic up on the gimp-developer mailing list first.

Problems on this web site?

If you detected a problem on one of our pages, such as a broken
link or some incorrect information, please use Bugzilla to submit a bug report for this web
site. Several GIMP contributors are keeping an eye on the bug
database regularly so this is probably the best way to tell us about
these problems and to get a timely response. See also why we are using Bugzilla.

You can also subscribe to the gimp-web
mailing list and then submit your improvement proposals to the
list.

Download mirrors

You can also use Bugzilla to notify us if a mirror of
download.gimp.org is gone or if a new one has recently been added. If you
want to set up a new mirror, you may want to use one of the existing
rsync mirrors to update your server. Please include the country of
your server in the summary of the bug.

Some hints on the server setup:

Please try to offer HTTP, FTP and rsync access

Check that all README files are present

Check that README, MIRRORS and *.md5 are sent as text/plain

The size of the data as seen on http://download.gimp.org/pub/ is
currently around 4.1 GiB, with gimp and gtk subdirectories amounting
to about 3.4 GiB. New releases are uploaded some time before the
announcement is made, so syncing every few days should be sufficient.